#bald uakari

[asterwild]

Bald uakari (Cacajao calvus) a New World monkey found in forests of the Amazon river basin in Brazil and Peru.

[vintagewildlife]

Bald uakari By: Unknown photographer From: WWF Threatened Animals 1986

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

Via Wild Memes for Ecological Fiends

[markhors-menagerie]

Bald uakari (Cacajao calvus)

Like… what do I even need to say here? Apparently the bright red face indicates health to potential mates, making the monkeys think it’s hot I guess. They eat fruit and seeds, and are found in seasonally flooded forests of Peru.

[snototter]

A bald uakari (Cacajao calvus) in Los Angeles Zoo

by Tad Motoyama

[make-this-into-a-pokemon]

Bald Uakari

This primate freaks me out so it could be like a ghost type pokemon

[saimirisimia]

Do you guys like him

[primate-tournament]

🦍The primate tournament list of candidates has been finalised! Polls will start going up soon!🦧

Thank you to everyone who submitted a species! Here is the full written list:

Basal primates (non-simian primates, including Strepsirrhini and Tarsiiformes)

†Notharctus (Notharctus tenebrosus)

Calabar angwantibo (Arctocebus calabarensis)

West African potto (Perodicticus potto)

Red slender loris (Loris tardigradus)

Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis)

Pygmy slow loris (Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus)

Senegal bushbaby (Galago senegalensis)

Brown greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus)

Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)

Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)

†Archaeoindris (Archaeoindris fontoynontii)

†Megaladapis (Megaladapis madagascariensis)

Madame berthe’s mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae)

Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)

Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta)

Pygmy tarsier (Tarsius pumilus)

New world monkeys (Platyrrhini)

Wied’s marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii)

Goeldi’s marmoset (Callimico goeldii)

Bearded emperor tamarin (Saguinus imperator subgrisescens)

Golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)

Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator)

Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii)

Gray-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus)

Bald uakari (Cacajao calvus)

Madidi titi monkey (Plecturocebus aureipalatii)

Atlantic titi monkey (Callicebus personatus)

Black bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas)

White-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia)

Colombian red howler (Alouatta seniculus)

Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus)

Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)

Yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda)

Old world monkeys (Cercopithecidae)

Mantled guereza (Colobus guereza)

Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii)

Nepal gray langur (Semnopithecus schistaceus)

Silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatux)

Golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)

Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus)

Red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus)

Collared mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus)

Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)

Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas)

Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)

Gelada (Theropithecus gelada)

Common patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas)

Bale mountains vervet (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis)

De brazza’s monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus)

Apes (Hominoidea)

Lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)

Pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus)

Kloss’s gibbon (Hylobates klossii)

Northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys)

Siamang (symphalangus syndactylus)

†Junzi (Junzi imperialis)

Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)

†Gigantopithecus (Gigantopithecus blacki)

†Dryopithecus (Dryopithecus fontani)

Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Bonobo (Pan paniscus)

†Australopithecus (Australopithecus afarensis)

†Panranthropus (Panranthropus boisei)

†Flores hobbit (Homo floresiensis)

†Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis)

The first set of polls will go up as soon as I have finished writing the descriptions! In the meantime, I would appreciate if you could share this tournament around- it won’t be much of a tournament if there aren’t that many people voting! In going down the research rabbit hole I’ve found so many interesting species and stories, and I promise learning about them here will be worth your time!

[my-friend-meowth]

Most Hansa plushies look really nice like these:

I would like to know why THESE are so ugly

Grumpy!

What is going on with this mute swan!! Large body tiny legs tiny head thin neck?!

Why this persian cat look like bald uakari?!?!

What is this thing??????

[c-casu]

The Amazon, thanks to the warmer climate, and the Central American forests will both be able to expand to the North and South. This greater biome allowed for more diverse ecoregions to appear, boosting the already high Amazon biodiversity of our time.

This expansion allowed the Amazon’s monkeys to reach drier areas, where such a closed canopy couldn’t exist, and where adaptations for a more terrestrial, or even fully terrestrial lifestyle, became necessary. Here two lineages that took to the ground became quite successful: the Hesperopapioninae, that eventually would become a staple of the savannah and grasslands, and the Calvopithecinae, descendants of the bald uakari, with much shorter tails than their ancestors and more robust in build, which are particularly convergent with apes, like the gorilla like sisimito (Melanopithecus sanguinans).

This more open habitat allowed another group to get to the ground, the tree porcupines. These ground porcupines are some of the biggest animals in the rainforest, getting as big as rhinos. They don’t have quills anymore, replaced by sharp and wide scales that they can erect like quills to harm their attackers, although their main weapons are their massive claws that they also use to reach foliage.

Their main predators are the Jaguarote or onça nebulosa (Notopardus panamericanus), who’s also one of the only two big felines in North America, along with its close relative, the puma like onça rubra (Rubrailurus continentalis). It’s a solitary semi-arboreal hunter whose range often expands into that of other Notopardus species.

Other notable tree-dwellers include descendants of most other extant new world monkey lineages, macaws and other American parrots, and neotenic hoatzins, that are even poorer fliers than their ancestors, almost gliding at this point, that use their claws to climb like chicks.

The rivers surrounded by the forests also have their own rich ecosystems, exploited by an array of semiaquatic mammals. The kings of these waterways are the otters, especially the descendants of the Neotropical otter, who took the giant river otter, who, instead, survived only in the brackish waters of Guyana’s, Venezuela’s and northern Brazil’s deltas, where they now occupy a niche similar to crocodilians, hunting both big fish, dolphin calves, terrestrial animals passing through and occasionally Phutridae species that stumble there.

The biggest animals in the basin are caimans, crocodiles and river dolphins, descended from the Guyana dolphin, one of the only two surviving cetaceans.

The most abundant semiaquatic mammal species in the Amazon river, though, is surely the Amazon opossum, descended from the water opossum, with a watertight pouch and joeys already capable of swimming to the surface shortly before developing fur.

[kissofchrysantheum]

Kwami OCS (for concepts beginning with B)

Kioon the Bald Uakari of Bafflement

Atlannta the Griffin of Balance

Eiilin the Mule of Barrenness

Lammis the Porcupine of Bashfulness

Aoiife the Fleischmann’s Glass Frog of Beauty

Genesiis the Dickinsonia of Beginning

Faiith the Salman of Belief

Celiio of Colossal Squid of Belonging

Fuu the Colugo of Besetment

Caadan the Tundra Wolf of Betrayal

Mitsuu the Gemsbok of Bewilderment

Druuj the Blue Crowned Pigeon of Bias

Zoorah the Serpent of Birth

Mailli the Krill of Bitterness

Isidoore the the Secretary bird of Blessing

Oono the Naked Mole-Rat of Blindness

Kriim the Undulate of Bluntness

Giizi the Olm of Body

Loom the Hedgehog of Boredom

Merritt the Honey Badger of Boundaries

Abiir the Bear of Bravery

Pumbaa the Mongoose of Brevity

Caiin the Meerkat of Bribery

Tantuu the Boa Constrictor of Brilliance

Ammo the Hippopotamus Brutality

Zazzu the Warthog of Burden

Concepts beginning with A, Concepts beginning with W

Inspired by @mymiraclebox

If you have any suggestions for name animals you think fit the concepts better let me know

[vintagewildlife]

Bald uakari By: L. Medland From: Brehms Tierleben 1922

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

Thoughts on uakari? I love how weird they look - like something from a dark fantasy movie :3

My thoughts are:

I LOVE THEM

They are so unique visually; They also have unique dentition that allows them to eat unripe fruits other Latin American monkeys can't eat!

Via Science Direct

90% of their diet consists of fruits and flowers. Their groups can consist of a pair up to hundreds of individuals; Larger groups are seen when food is more abundant. Groups are typically evenly divided male/female. Little is known about uakari as they have been studied very little in the wild. Captive troops are hierarchal but wild troops seem to be less strictly tiered. They wag their tail quite frequently and it is believed a lifted tail communicates excitement while a lowered tail communicates apprehension.

Cacajao calvus are the bald uakari, but

C. melanocephalus has plenty of hair

Little is known about their wild populations and their conservation status is not decided currently. Right now, they are listed as least concern but some believe the numbers are not accurate. They are targets of poachers for their skulls and body parts to sell to tourists, they are also captured for the pet trade. Threats to their habitat are of concern as well, like many tropical species.

Sources X

[hirotheinkling]

Here’s my rendition of a descendant of the bald uakari (Cacajao calvus) known as the sisimito (Melanopithecus sanguinans), one of the future animals in my Splatoon headcanon! (In my headcanon, nearly all land mammals larger than a cat went extinct, but some smaller land mammals survived) Like its close relatives in the Calvopithecinae subfamily, it is robust in build and convergent with apes, which have been reduced to a few species in the mollusc era.

The original concept credit goes to -casu on Reddit.

[thetriggeredhappy]

Somehow ended up discussing weird animals with my best friend the other day (they'd only just discovered the existence of the manul). Thanks to you, the olinguito was the first one I named! (Although the biggest hit was the uakari, which my friend noted looks very much like "a bald man in a big coat leaving Weatherspoons at 2am after having been drinking since noon".)

OH MY GOD WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE THAT

THAT IS SURELY A SMALL EMBARRASSED MAN IN A GORILLA SUIT BECAUSE THAT CANNOT BE AN ANIMAL

[rivashi]

aroha

synopsis: how heartslabyul (except ace) show love, compassion, or tenderness.

characters: riddle rosehearts, cater diamond, trey clover, deuce spade (ft. floyd leech, azul ashengrotto + gn!reader)

genre(s): tooth rotting FLUFF, crack [riddle’s only], wholesome, established relationship | headcanons

cw: talks of crime [trey’s only], mention of excrement [once], deuce’s part is a li’l longer cuz i’m biased (sorry, not sorry), mentions of ganging up [not by reader nor characters], implied harassment

˗ˏ♡*ೃ˚:; Riddle Rosehearts

To say that Riddle has a soft spot for you would be an understatement. Wherever the two certain freshmen cowers behind you, begging for help— the strict Housewarden would kindly ask you to not get involved and step aside. You would do so but not before cupping the redhead’s face and placing a kiss on his forehead. “You guys have ten minutes to run.” You informed the duo without facing them. Hearing that, Ace and Deuce snapped out of their initial shock and fled the scene, leaving you and their blubbering prefect behind.

You watched as the former tyrant of a Dorm Leader tried to make a coherent sentence out of the fast-paced stuttering words leaving out of his lips, making you coo at him with a teasing smile before showering him with more affection. A flustered and slightly trembling Riddle was becoming more hushed with his complaints the more kisses you place on his warm face. “…So embarrassing.” No, he didn’t mean you were embarrassing him. He knows you knew that. He meant he was embarrassed of the situation and of himself.

He’s not experienced in these types of situations. Homeschooled and isolated from his friends, he can’t help but be the way that he is now and hope you understand. You do— you reassured him many times. Again and again. You hear him sigh before pulling you close to him by the waist, making you look at him. “My monarch, I should punish you for letting them escape my grasp… but this would suffice, for now.” He holds the back of your head and presses his lips against yours. You melt against him as you wrap your arms around him. It was a short but loving kiss. When he pulls away, you bury your face into his neck and sigh in content. He tensed up at the gesture before tightening his hold around your waist and resting his head over yours with a small smile, completely forgetting the two rule-breaking freshmen. Or so, you thought.

Just kidding. You let the duo face the wrath of the li’l bald uakari because there’s no way you would even go near that queen chihuahua. Besides you have your scary boyfriend dog: Floyd, when the two (and they will) – especially a certain ginger-haired jerk – try to guilt-trip or rope you into doing something without your consent again for the nth time.

˗ˏ♡*ೃ˚:; Cater Diamond

Almost everyone in Twisted Wonderland knows you and Cater are the it couple. You two are always in their feed on Magicam, second to the Pomefiore students. It is nearly both endearing and disgusting at the same time. Cater practically loves to post between pictures and videos of you (anonymous or nor) and the two of you together. It mostly consists of you though. You can’t blame him! He wants to show you off— the gem in his name. Cater doesn’t push you to post but loves when you do! Especially, if you try to match your profile with his as a surprise when he clicks on it.

“My gem~!” You smile at the familiar voice and petname before feeling your boyfriend bumped into you slightly while wrapping his arms around you, making Trey smirk at your direction before going his way past you two. “I saw your surprise and I love it~!!!” His statement makes you chuckle before facing him with a wide grin to match his, eyes shining with delight as he continues to say praises to you. Basically worshiping you. “I’m so lucky to have you~! Why do you have to be so cute and sweet?! I love you so much~!!! Oh, Great Seven—“

A simple press of a finger on his lips interrupts Cater’s monologue, shivering as he feels your (texture) hand cup his face. “Cater, my diamond. Are you feeling better now?” The soft look on your eyes accompanied by the slight hint of concern in your voice makes his heart skip a beat. He’s embarrassed— he thought he could hide his true feelings from you. And he’s beyond flustered at the revelation behind your surprise. He’s thankful for your understanding; for not getting angry at him for hiding his distress and for not questioning the reason behind it. A sigh from you brought him back to reality. “Never mind. What matters is you’re doing great~. C’mon, my diamond. Let’s get something to eat and feed each other like those cliché couples so we can make everyone groan out of envy~.” He laughs, matching your twisted smile as you both swing your connected hands from side-to-side together.

˗ˏ♡*ೃ˚:; Trey Clover

The reliable parent and the ever so gentleman™ but hidden behind those thick black-rimmed glasses is a playful yet cunning upperclassman. The other students in Heartlabyul would often think that you and the Vice-Housewarden are secretly scheming and plotting something— be it from an extremely spicy handmade goods disguised as treats to you two chilling together at the lounge as you "hypothetically" describe in great detail how you would hide the "evidence" of your so-called crime while your boyfriend suggests on several improvements on your plan like it’s a totally normal thing?!?!?!

“It’s a good concept overall but,” he pauses, “I think it would be best if you also mixed animal food with the processed "evidence" before feeding it to your animals— their excrements does make great fertilizers if we – in the future – ever grow our own crops for our food and treats.” Trey proposed the idea to you, his usual smirk grows smug and his ego skyrockets at your awestruck expression and twinkling eyes as if asking the already obvious implication of his statement. “Yes, my clover. As I said, I want a future with you in it.”

A gasp escapes your lips as your boyfriend goes on one knee, pulling out a playing card that displays the Three of Clubs similarly to the one on his dorm uniform. Your hands gingerly took the card from his, inspecting it. On the back had a successful marriage written in Trey’s penmanship. Beside that, the playing card seemed like any normal cards but the look in his eyes tells you otherwise. Before long as if on cue, the playing card changes into or back to a simple silver band. His palms enveloped yours as it held the ring with shaky fingers, your eyes shot down to meet Trey’s hazel irises— warm and soft, just for you. All for you. “I may not be a wealthy partner but I hope it won’t hinder the successful marriage we would soon plan together. Should you accept, of course.” At the statement, you merely chuckled in response as you knew he knew your response. He watched in amusement as you slipped the ring onto its destined place on your finger, confirming what he was already aware of.

˗ˏ♡*ೃ˚:; Deuce Spade

Having a blue-hued raven-haired former – still kinda – delinquent as your boyfriend is quite unique. You met the freshman after unintentionally (and ironically) befriending the troublesome bad-mouthed Ace, the selfish gluttonous Grim, and the Prefect of Ramshackle Dorm. He relied heavily on you to be his "brain" to prevent him from failing or making deals with a certain Octavinelle sophomore and to be his "anchor" to keep him in check when he inevitably slipped up to his bad boy speech mannerisms and tendencies. But sometimes, it’s a great assist too.

“What do you guys think you are doing, HA?! Cornering my partner like this?!” Deuce says threateningly while cracking his knuckles like usual when he snaps, allowing you to sneakily slip pass through unnoticed by the group of NRC students surrounding you and walk to your boyfriend’s side, tugging his arm in an attempt to hold him back from getting in trouble again. But the man didn’t even budge, stepping in front of you protectively, ready for a physical exchange of fists. Fortunately, for you and the students, the leader of the group was all bark and no bite.

“Tsk. Cowards.” Deuce scowls, once they were out of sight before facing you and gripping your shoulders. With his piercing cyan eyes focused on yours, he pulls you into the safety of his arms before asking, “Are you okay? They didn’t hurt you, right?” Effectively, hiding the blush on his face from you but his rigid body and the pounding of his heart are the telltale signs of the effect you have on him. You’re not above teasing your cute boyfriend but decided to cling onto him tightly, relishing this rare moment of vulnerability and closeness with him a little longer.

You pull away from him hesitantly, flashing him a grateful smile. You two linger a bit in each other’s arms before stepping out from one another. He started stacking up your scattered books then slinging your bag on his shoulder before picking up your belongings with one hand while the other held yours before escorting you back to your dormitory, going above and beyond the bare minimum. He refuses to relent when you insist on carrying something and makes the most offended expression ever as if you put a hex or something on his mother. “I, at least, want to carry these to make it up to you.” Deuce reasoned, mostly worried that you might leave him because of this and was beside you throughout the stroll as if attached to you by the hip. “This is the only thing I can do for you. So, please, let me.”